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>I think thats very much personal preference.

Yes, but as every personal preference it's also a statistical quantity. E.g liking sugary sweets or not is a personal preference, but 90% of the population likes them.

I think the patterns we've seen tell us that people engage more with native apps than with webpages.

(Apart from all the other advantages of native that cannot ever be repeated by mobile --except by, extension APIs, which are bridges to native themselves).
Practical value is therefore marginal at best. A much more useful analysis would be by subject, across all institutions.

There are various collections of by-department rankings.

http://www.arwu.org/ -- this one can list by Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, and Economics.
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>> Lists like these recognise in public University's that are good and gives all universities a reason to improve.

I very much hope universities aren't shallow and lacking of a reasonable vision and mission to the point of requiring some random generic ranking to motivate efforts to improve.

Many students might, however, be motivated by such things. That is, anyway, until they realize it's probably not a good strategy. Ie. If I want to become a lawyer or politician, I don't go to MIT; if I want to become a software engineer, I don't go to [insert random high ranking university without an engineering related program].

>> ...the truth is yes you are better off going to a higher rated university if external factors are equal.

I'm curious what you mean by "if external factors are equal"? What external factors? Do you mean "if all universities had the same mission and vision, same degree programs, same culture, are located in the same place, attract the same type of students, etc."? I can agree with you then. However, I believe the fact is that the "external factors" are actually very, very different (back to my original comment).
Because the UK makes very little attempt to actually employ or utilize its best and brightest -- only to filter them out of the general population. America has a less-severe form of the same problem.
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Not really. Nokia Maps is more than Nokia Maps on iOS. Downloadable/Offline maps is killer feature in Nokia Symbian/Meego phones (at least for travelling person from Europe). I guess the same solution is used in Lumia phones as well.

Since I don't want to buy Lumia phone when there will be no Symbians anymore I hope Android will have proper offline maps or EU will force reasonable price for data connection across Europe (what it actually does gradually).
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Thanks for the links. I wonder if it could happen now people can see the candidates more on TV (and hatless)?

As I understand it, a lot of the population didn't even know Roosevelt was in a wheelchair, something that would be impossible today.
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I wouldn't mind but Maps are not worth that much I guess - having in mind that Google has its own maps. Google already has Motorola what makes Nokia less attractive (e.g. patent portfolio).
I really started programming at 30. Prior to that I spend 5 years managing medium-sized groups of IT staff (telephone, wan/lan,satellite). Managing the IT groups was a billion times more stressful. Programming is so much more fun and rewarding.
>> Its not very financially rewarding. And when you see the guy next to you making big bucks by just asking for status updates, forwarding mails and changing cells on excel sheets. You begin to wonder if its worth it.

I had this same question and asked one of the more experienced guy in our team on why he didn't took the managerial path when he had the chance and experience - his answer was "This is what I like". I could see that there are more financially motivated people in the team than there are people who love technology. If tomorrow the whole IT industry in the country goes extinct most of the guys who fill in excel sheets will be happy counting boxes in a factory as long as they pay enough.
I think the point is that if he kept programming (i.e. doing what he enjoyed) rather than taking the CTO/VP positions he might not have needed a break in Hawaii to de-stress.
I'm 63, been programming since my student days in 1965. Programming is one of the greatest jobs in the World. I'd rather program than play golf. All my life I've been incredulous that they actually pay me to do this.

(I'm not sedentary, I walk 3 km/day, 8 on week-ends).
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Is there a reason Linux isn't supported? Silverlight?

Edit: There's a webgl version here: http://maps3d.svc.nokia.com/webgl/
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Since they went public they are just looking how to make money and if nothing change I will probably stop using it..
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I'm 23, so I have no idea, but I'm pretty sure that I will still love programming as much as I do now. I started as a kid, so it's a big part of me. However, a lot can change in 27 years. Programming is a huge passion of mine, but music and charity work can also steal all of my focus if I let them.

I'm a Ruby on Rails specialist at the moment, and I absolutely love the framework and community. GitHub and rubygems are amazing. Google and Stack Overflow are like all-knowing genies. I'll go out on a limb and say that right now is the best time in history to be a developer, and tomorrow will be even better.
Looks promising. I always wanted to read part of a news or analysis but didn't want to pay the "all you can read" per month subscription plans that costs a lot from online newspaper publications.

Also love the example from http://content.peachpit.com/ . Read a chapter for 0.99 or buy the whole book for $23.99. This is Specially helpful while searching for some quick technical help or guide. Now I don't want to buy the whole book as I might already have couple of books related to the topic.

The main attraction I feel is the easy refund. As a user this money back guarantee would push for an instant purchase.
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> I think the patterns we've seen tell us that people engage more with native apps than with webpages.

What are your sources for this?

I just googled it, and the first thing that came up is this - "Twice as Many Mobile News Readers Prefer Browsers to Apps [STUDY]":

http://mashable.com/2012/10/01/mobile-tablet-news-consumptio...

As I said above, there are some clear advantages for browser based apps, and for me they outweigh the advantages of native apps. I have no real idea how many people are in each camp, but I don't think it's an overwhelming majority in either direction.
I don't think they are claiming that at all. They are questioning Groklaw's unabashed partisanship. The thing that I find utterly absurd about these discussion is the partisanship that goes on. The Google and Android faithful are particularly bad in this area. They will call articles that disagree with their world view biased, yet an article that does is undeniable and unquestionable.
> how much money could be made by licensing that data?

Navteq still do license map data. But it's not as profitable as all that; IIRC they weren't breaking even when Nokia took them over. This seems fairly common in that industry; Ordnance Survey (who aren't fully commercial, but the same concept applies) are heavily supplemented by public money, for example. It's presumably even more expensive to do all the capture for Street View type data.

> Alternatively, how much could be made by creating a map application for the major mobile platforms, and sell it to the consumer direct?

That seems like a pretty good idea to me, although I doubt it's going to dig them out of a €1.5bn hole. Still, Nokia don't have a lot to lose at this point, although I feel like they're still in denial about their recent lack of competitiveness in smartphones.
I'm not familiar with Nokia Maps at all. How is its offline feature better than Google Maps On Android's offline feature? (You call it "proper" suggesting to me that you consider better than the way Google Maps on Android does it.) I don't have a smart phone, just a WiFi only Android tablet and I've fund the offline maps features in Google Maps perfectly adequate.
I disagree, I think that they are just looking to make an impact on the world.

If all they wanted was to make money, then there would be ads all over the place, instead of the few, limited places at the moment (the right of the main page area, underneath comments on pictures, etc.)

In all honesty, I don't see why people constantly complain about the ads on twitter or facebook, do they really effect you that much that you would stop using the service?

Facebook has 1,000,000,000 users now, that kind of scaling isn't cheap, you want a large social network with all of your friends which you can use 24/7, completely free (cost for your internet, etc, aside) and that isn't sustainable without the website making money somehow. Most people aren't willing to pay for Facebook, if that was a viable solution then it would be the Facebook income stream.

Saying "Facebook wants to make money, if this doesn't change, I will stop using it" is the same as saying "The company which runs the buses in my area puts ads in it's bus stand, so I'm going to stop standing in it."

Whether we like it or not, Facebook is now an integral part of many peoples lives, I live in a different country to my family, Facebook lets me chat to them easily and freely, I could send them a letter instead, but that's subject the thievery, loss and costs a lot more money.

So Facebook wants more ads on it's site? Who cares? As long as the key features are still there, 1,000,000,000+ people and it doesn't effect the way you interact with the site too much, it doesn't make a difference in the end.
Indeed. This is the most interestng question here.
30's here. I'm actually calling "still doing this when I'm 50" my best case scenario. It will mean the joy I take in making was able to outrun the creeping cynicism that seems to catch up with far too many people as they get older.

It's about getting derailed by hairline fractures in otherwise reliable tools, and apparently being the first person to discover...

I actually live for these moments. When I google the error, in quotes, and get 0 responses. Its a total rush to know that I'm the first one there. Its even better when I figure out a decent fix and then light out across the forums to share my new-found knowledge.
...doing the same in a more restrictive environment (in this case, browser) is always an accomplishment.
No doubt it's large, but how many are spam accounts? How many are multiple account holders? How's it measured? Does a simple like button click count as an activity?
OK. I don't have any modern Android. I believe offline maps for Android is pretty new function. Right? I think in offline maps for Android you can download only selected region. Meanwhile with Nokia maps I can download map for individual country or state (in case of US).
Yes that the only thing that keep me using it. All my friends are there. But they are pushing promoted posts for groups and users, sponsored stories, offers. My news feed is becoming aggregate for ads.. When they went public all the changes was for the stock price.
I know nothing of Tesla/SpaceX, but be aware that how glamorous/hip a company/industry/etc is, often correlates negatively with how well they treat employees by objective measures, i.e. working hours, salary, etc. Just read some posts about the gaming industry. It's supply and demand, really.
I'm curious as to how they found my exact address when I turned on the locator feature. Also, I wonder why Canada is not listed as a country for terms of use. Perhaps because the 3d features are not available here?...
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It's interesting to see the average number of friends from 2006 to present has decreased to around 300 (The last reported number was 305 in 2010 so it could even be under 300 in 2012).

Maybe Facebook users are being more self ware (privacy conscious) of who they add as a "friend"?
57, programming for 33 years with hardly a day off, and having more fun than ever.

My motivation? It's not about the technology, the tools, the apps, the business, the customers, or even the money, although any of those can provide plenty of motivation. And believe it or not, it's not even about the happy dance feeling I get when something I built works for the first time.

It's about the achievements of those who use what I built. Hopefully that'll keep my busy for another 33 years.
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Point taken. But does it really matter that the students are not "American-born"?

How many expat students really return to their native countries? I think the investments in education ultimately stays closer to the institutions.
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I guess "People sharing things that matter" is very subjective. A nice story to be sure....but "really matters"?

Is storylane curated or just a free for all?
Won't they have to give a more detailed accounting of users now that they're public? Surely it's a very important thing to know if you hold facebook stock.
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Up until 2 months ago they had 8.7% of fake users
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Weird that most of the users who i browsed through, seem to not be actual users and are just syndicated from existing blogs. (with the owners permission ?!)

Screenshot: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/9zSroi6QLrBk8JpuJXo6Qk...

same as this user: http://www.storylane.com/scottbedford

a pity...
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I was hoping for a visual editor or something similar when I read the title.

Regular expressions are not hard to understand (once you understood finite state machines), but the syntax is hard to read in many cases.
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Yes, it is pretty new, or at least I hadn't noticed it until a few months ago. And, as far as I know, you are right that to specify what to download you pick a rectangle on a map view, making it awkward to pick a whole country without getting plenty of extra stuff.
Maybe people have reached what could be considered their 'critical mass' in respect to the number of friends.

You can realistically only know a small number of people, and 300 is probably a good estimate for acquaintances rather than friends, over time you add people, remove people, fall out with people etc.

In the first few weeks you add more people than ever, then the curve slows down to 'old' and 'new' friends, in which case the trend slows down as all the people you used to know have added you.

I know that now, 5 years in to my use of an account, I delete more 'friends' than I add.

Not because of privacy concerns, mind you, I just realize now that a lot of the people I added in the early days weren't 'friends', they were just 'people' with whom I had some intangibly vague connection.
Nokia don't have perfect worldwide coverage though, they have nothing in Japan aside from outlines. (understandable as Nokia have zero market presence or ambition in Japan, but no good as an acquire)
"ecosystem" in regards to computer software has got to be one of the worst analogies. It invokes all sort of mushy animistic preconceived notions from way back when, like the concept of divine harmony. I much preferred when people talked about software running on the Windows platform, or the mac platform, rather than propping them up with some sort of life-spirit.
Ironically, I was thrilled to read this article! If the complaint that the state of the art of tech teaching in Indian colleges is stagnant is true to any extent, then at least some people (read the "project" folks) are improving by leaps and bounds in both technology as well as, hopefully, pedagogy.

For the good of Indian tech education, I hope that one day these people will get to design curricula and setup colleges of their own!! I hope I'm not dreaming in vain.
I wanted to here more detail about how they want from a curated marketplace to the free-for-all it is today.

TopTal and Matchist have launched in the last few years, and are aiming to be curated jobs marketplaces (TopTal vets coders, Matchist vets clients). When I first saw them, I thought it was a great model, but this article suggests it's something oDesk tried back in the day and didn't work out. Anyone have any deeper insights?
It seems out of place in a web-dominated world. Compare Brat Victor's "learnable programming" [0] or "Scientific Communication As Sequential Art" [1], which includes animated or interactive things.

[0] http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/
[1] http://worrydream.com/ScientificCommunicationAsSequentialArt...
As I recall, in 2006 only students were allowed on it, and many of them would add seemingly everyone on campus as a friend.

It's possible that today, students still do that, but other people don't, bringing the average down.
Agreed, with their disappointing stock performance from the beginning of the year on, stock options would definitely be one thing to really examine and determine if they would be worth anything at all.
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I hope no one is seriously suggesting that regular expressions should be used in programs, such as email address verification and http parsing. As well as being incredibly slow, they are hard to read, and inferior to application-specific parsers (for example, sometimes non-RFC-compliant emails are actually valid, and dealing with whitespace in html is a nightmare).

For the interactive case, the ability for them to be written quickly is what makes them so helpful, and an abstraction library could take away this advantage.
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Though I'm not sure if it would be possible because you need to sign the letter.
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To be fair with Blizzard, they DO allow you to create characters in any of the 3 zones (Europe/America/Asia) with any valid account, which is an improvement over their previous games. But true, you'd better give some thoughts about which one you really want to use before starting the game. Which is a shame when half of your friends are playing in Europe, the other in Americas, and you yourself live in Japan.

Being in the field of online games and payments, I think the main reason they don't allow you to transfer characters between zones is the Real Money Auction House (for legal reasons and not to allow inter-zone speculation).
I agree with all that you say, but seriously, that book is the most worthless thing I've ever had the misfortune to try reading.
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OTOH, with the Nokia link, I get "Sorry. For now, 3D Maps only works with these browsers" and a picture of Piazza San Marco and the Canal Grande in Venice. That's probably nicer looking than your apartment, so we'll be charitable and say that Nokia wins anyway.
I'm a few of those active users.
I am really starting to dislike this meme. Yeah, this is not something the UN needs to weigh in on, I get that. You have managed to both state the obvious and betray patronising superiority. Congratulations. Do you go around dismissing lots of opinions all day with that quip simply because they are not opinions about how to source water in arid territories, or how to keep goats healthy?
Why do you have a hooded figure that's making the gesture I wonder, at least for soccer fans it evokes the notion that it's a hooligan - if you're trying to get the user to relate. I'd go for hood off and see some non-gender specific hair. YMMV.
Apple, PayPal and a vast array of other global brands have no support for someone moving to a different country.

I mean, who would voluntarily want to leave the US? It's unthinkable.

Edge case, get used to it. Don't live the dream....
Does it really matter? It's a number you can compare to other sites' reports of active users, doing the same measurements.
It was discussed during the webcast of the last launch, they said to save fuel. Presumably there's a more technical discussion around it, but that seems to be the gist of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_4-TOcVegM&feature=playe...
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You lose the ability to write them quickly, which considering I mainly use them for code editing or one-off uses, is quite important. The thing about regular expressions is they aren't suited to general programming in their normal form (since they are hard to read, and slow), and the quoted example is better described as a general parser, and could be implemented much better directly then abstracting through regular expressions.
Nah you can do it as many times as you want and the books are in the same listing on your kindle regardless. You have to switch your "account" while actually buying the books.
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This sound like g+ - ppl sharing things that matter to me.
rather:
Wasting time and attention on useless statistics and pointless visualizations.
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I'll start with a client of mine that pays a webservice company to contact recent customers and asks them for a review and a rating.
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Quite right. I see two issues with regexes: funky syntax and some important and non-obvious limitations. If you want to use them, these two things add up to a considerable barrier to entry. There are many examples of trivial pattern-matching languages (DOS wildcards, UNIX wildcards and SQL text matching to name but three) that address both of these issues by being easy to grasp and surprisingly useful.

I haven't actually tried this, but it seems easy to grasp and I've spent enough time busting up delimited strings that "surprisingly useful" is plausible too.